Sick Leave Sample Clauses
The Sick Leave clause establishes an employee's right to take time off from work due to illness or injury. Typically, it outlines the amount of paid or unpaid leave available, the process for notifying the employer, and any documentation required, such as a doctor's note for extended absences. This clause ensures that employees can recover from health issues without fear of losing their job or income, thereby promoting workplace well-being and providing clear guidelines for both employers and employees regarding absences due to sickness.
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Sick Leave. The employee is eligible for long term disability benefits if provided for in the Collective Agreement. An employee will not receive pay for the first two (2) weeks of any period of absence due to a legitimate illness. The employee may utilize the paid holiday bank as income replacement for absences due to illness, as described in Article (c) above. An employee who is eligible may apply for Employment Insurance for weeks three (3) through seventeen (17) for any absence due to a legitimate illness. The Home will provide the employee with Disability Income Protection as per Article 14.01 (c) for weeks eighteen (18) through thirty (30) for any absence due to a legitimate illness. Employees may be required to provide medical proof of illness for any absence of a scheduled shift, which is neither vacation nor an approved leave of absence.
Sick Leave. It is agreed and understood that the purpose of sick leave is to protect an employee against loss of income in the event of her own, personal illness that prevents her from reporting to work as scheduled.
21.01 Providing sick leave credits are available, will be granted to employees on the following basis:
(a) After completion of the probationary period, each Full Time employee shall be credited with ten (10) sick leave credits per calendar year (as prorated). There shall be no more than ten (10) credits in the employee’s sick leave bank at any one time. One credit equals the normal number of hours worked per shift.
(b) An employee who is ill on days when he/she is scheduled to work for the Employer will be paid by the Employer for scheduled time missed on such illness, beginning with the first day of such illness, and such payment shall be deducted from his/her accumulated sick leave credits, upon completion of the sick claim form.
(c) No penalty for Full Time for 10 days – Part Time employees will receive amount of 30 cents in lieu of sick days per hour worked effective date of ratification.
(d) An employee off work due to illness and entitled to sick pay shall not receive pay for more sick time than the normal number of hours he/she would have worked on the day(s) absent.
(e) An employee off work due to illness and entitled to sick pay shall not engage in any gainful employment during the time he/she is off work.
21.02 Staff members who become ill should contact their Supervisor, or designate, of the fact that they will be absent from work due to illness. Staff must directly contact their Supervisor or designate via telephone when they are ill and will miss a scheduled shift. When staff follow this protocol the Supervisor will commence the process of replacing them. Otherwise Staff will continue to self- replace. Unless it is not possible at least two (2) hours notices must be given in the event of an absence from a day shift, and at least six (6) hours’ notice in the event of an absence from an evening or night shift.
21.03 Employees returning to work shall provide their Supervisor with a minimum of sixteen (16) hours’ notice of their return to allow the Supervisor to appropriately adjust the schedule. Failure to give such notice will, in most cases, result in the returning employee being sent home until her next scheduled shift without pay.
21.04 The Employee shall be required to provide proof of illness by medical certificate if absence is longer t...
Sick Leave. The parties agree that any current collective agreement provisions and/or Board policies/practices/procedures related to Sick Leave that do not conflict with the clauses in the Sick Leave article in the Central Agreement shall remain as per August 31, 2014. Such issues include but are not limited to:
Sick Leave. 16.01 If illness prevents regular full-time employees of the bargaining unit from performing their duties, the University will provide sufficient sick leave to continue full regular pay, without any premium, through, but not beyond, the required waiting period for long term disability benefits.
16.02 Sick leave for probationary employees ((a) and (b) only) and temporary full-time employees is as follows:
(a) three (3) working days in the first three (3) month’s employment;
(b) an additional ten (10) working days after three (3) months of employment;
(c) thirteen (13) days sick leave – renewable on the employee’s anniversary date.
16.03 Employees who will, after ninety (90) calendar days, become entitled by reason of disability to receive income protection at sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66⅔%) of their salary rate at the time of commencement of the disability, will receive an additional thirteen and one-third percent (13⅓%) of their basic wages for up to four (4) months from the commencement of the time for which income protection payments are received or until the disability ceases, whichever is sooner.
16.04 For absences of five (5) or more consecutive work days, the employee shall provide medical evidence verifying the illness. The University may require such evidence for lesser periods provided the employee is allowed reasonable time to obtain such evidence.
16.05 An employee shall give notice to their immediate supervisor, or designate, of any illness which will prevent the from performing their duties.
16.06 When an employee is entitled to receive compensation under the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, their salary will continue up to the limit of their sick leave entitlement. The employee shall reimburse the University in an amount equal to lost time compensation received under that Act in respect of the period for which they received full salary. ▇▇▇▇ leave used shall then be reinstated as of the date the employee returns to work. In circumstances where the employee’s sick-leave credit balance may be insufficient to provide the employee with full salary until the WSIB initial decision on the claim has been made, the employee will be given the option of having the University continue to provide sick-leave entitlement to the employee. It is understood that should the employee elect to have this additional sick-leave with pay provided, the employee shall reimburse the University in an amount equal to the salary received as a result of receiving...
Sick Leave. Section 22.1. Each employee covered by this Agreement shall be entitled for each completed hour in active pay status, not including overtime, to 0.0575 hours of sick leave.
Section 22.2. Unused sick leave shall be accumulated without any maximum limit. When sick leave is used, it shall be deducted from the employee’s credit on the basis of one (1) hour for every one (1) hour or portion thereof of absence from previously scheduled work. However, any employee who calls off of scheduled work, pursuant to this Article, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. may be required to submit a written return to work release from a licensed physician in order to return to work for the second half of the tour, i.e., 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. An employee shall only be permitted to use sick leave for those days on which the employee would have otherwise been regularly scheduled to work, not including scheduled overtime hours.
Section 22.3. Sick leave benefits will be granted only for absence from duty due to the personal illness or injury of the employee or serious illness or injury of a member of the employee’s immediate family wherein the employee’s presence is required to care for the ill or injured family member. Immediate family, for purposes of this Article, shall be defined as the employee’s spouse, child, or other family member who lives in the employee’s household. In the event other family members are hospitalized, scheduled for surgery or otherwise convalescent to the extent that the employee’s presence is reasonably necessary, or the employee is required to care for minor children due to the illness or injury of the spouse, the Director of Public Safety and Service may authorize sick leave payment. Absence due to sickness in the immediate family, requiring the continuous presence of the employee at home or to make arrangements for hospitalization or other care, shall not exceed three (3) consecutive workdays.
Section 22.4. When an employee is unable to report for work for reasons as set forth in Section 23.3, the employee shall contact the Fire Chief or designee not less than one (1) hour prior to the regular reporting time and inform the Chief or designee of the nature of the illness or injury and the phone number and address where the employee may be contacted during the absence. The employee must notify the supervisor in this manner each succeeding day of absence unless other arrangements are authorized by the supervisor. Failure to comply with this requirement shall be grounds for d...
Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner.
A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue.
B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions.
C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative.
Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired.
Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories.
A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew
B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.
Sick Leave. Any sick leave applied for in this section that qualifies for leave under the Family and Medical Leave Article of this Agreement shall be used in conjunction with the rules of that Article of this Agreement.
a. All bargaining unit employees shall be eligible for sick leave as provided in this Article.
b. All full time employees working forty (40) hours per week shall be entitled to 32 hours of sick leave on the last day of the first month of each school year and will earn eight (8) hours sick leave for each additional completed month of continuous, uninterrupted service. This leave shall be credited at the end of that month and shall not be used prior to the time that it is earned and credited. No employee shall be entitled to earn more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. All employees working less then forty (40) hours per week will earn sick leave prorated in relation to the hours they regularly work.
c. Sick leave cannot be utilized before it is earned and credited to the employee.
d. Sick leave earned shall be credited to the employee on the last day of the pay period, or, in the case of separation on the last day the employee is on the payroll.
e. There shall be no limit on the number of hours of unused sick leave an employee may accrue.
f. Sick leave shall be taken only when necessary because the employee is unable to perform his/her duty on account of personal sickness, accident disability, or extended personal illness, or because of illness or death of father, mother, brother, sister, husband, wife, child, or other close relative or member of his/her own household. Personal illness shall include disability caused or contributed by a pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, childbirth and recovery.
g. Any employee who finds it necessary to be absent from his/her duties because of illness, as defined in this Article, shall notify his/her immediate supervisor before the beginning of the work day on which he/she must be absent except for emergency reasons recognized by the Superintendent as valid. The employee shall, before claiming and receiving compensation for the time absent from his/her duties while absent because of such leave, make and file within five (5) working days following his/her return from such absence with the Superintendent a leave form which shall set forth the day or days absent, that such absence was necessary, and that he/she believes he/she is entitled or not entitled to rec...
Sick Leave. (1) An employee on maternity leave or parental leave shall not be entitled to sick leave during the period of leave.
(2) Subject to paragraph (d)(1), an employee on maternity leave or parental leave who has notified the Department Head of their intention to return to work pursuant to paragraph (b)(5) and who subsequently suffers any illness or disability which prevents them from returning to work as scheduled, whether or not such illness or disability is related to pregnancy, shall be entitled to sick leave benefits commencing on the first day on which the employee would otherwise have returned to work.
Sick Leave. Each employee shall accrue sick leave at the rate of one and one-quarter (1-1/4) days or the equivalent per completed calendar month of continuous full-time service, including authorized leave with pay, provided that:
Sick Leave. Sick Leave/Short Term Leave and Disability Plan
